More from L'Engle

I think I'll be sharing a lot of quotes from this book. In fact, just go buy it.

If the work come to the artist and says, "Here I am, serve me," then the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the artist's talent is not what it is about. Jean Rhys said to an interviewer in the Paris Review, "Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake."

--Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

My comment: the lake is that sea of creativity in which--if we look closely and carefully--we glimpse the reflection of God. What a responsibility and what an honor to think that one has something to contribute!